Are they still around?

[Dale Beasley]

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Back in the mid 80's my roommate at Ft Polk was Mark Singleton Wincoff, he was the gg? nephew of John Mosby. (As per his SCV Petition)

[fortdonelsonrelics]

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Mary Brubacker is the daughter of General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. who had a command (Tenth Army) in the Pacific Theater during WWII (Was killed in the closing days of the battle of Okinawa and is the highest ranking general killed during WWII) and was the son of general Simon Bolivar Buckner from Kentucky who surrender the command at Fort Donelson.

She is still alive to the best of my knowledge and lives in Seattle I believe.

In keeping with the moderator's request for no attachments, I have added a link below with pictures of the direct decendants of General Buckner, including another great-great grandson. Miss Brubacker is wearing the Light Blue Dress. At this particular event there were 4 generations of direct decendants of Buckner.

http://www.fortdonelsonrelics.com/pics_page_4.htm

John Walsh

[fahtz]

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One of Buckner's descendants lives up here in the KC area. If you have a copy of the Perryville dvd put out by Wide Awake Films, he is on the extra features. The few times I have visited with him I have been able to hold some artifacts that he had at Perryville. That to me is the Holy Grail.

[BumpusTN]

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I was in the SCV with a guy in Memphis named Kevin Bradley. His great great grandfather was a fellow named Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Scott Bumpus

[Jeff Prechtel]

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For many years, and until her passing some years ago, my family was
friends with a lady named Polly Mosby, her late husband David was
cousins with the famous "Grey Ghost" John S. Mosby. I grew up listening
to her talk about General Mosby, and their family. There's a creek, home,
and a historic covered bridge up here in Oregon, named after the family.
Sadly after she retired to San Francisco, their old historic home was
pillaged of all the antiques, family heirlooms, photos & etc they kept in
the house. Polly was one of the main reasons that I got involved in ACW
living history and reenacting.

[MissAnnaMae]

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We had the pleasure of meeting decendants of Alice and Mattie Ready (John Hunt Morgan's wife) at a LH we were doing at Stones River NMP back in 2006. They were thrilled that someone was actually interested in the life of Gen. Morgan's better half rather than Gen. Morgan himself. As a prerequisite to our event, Trish H. and I were reading Alice's diary that she had written during the occupation of Murfreesboro. What a firebrand she was!! One of the Park's young volunteers offered to "be" Alice for the LH and read parts of "her" diary for the family and spectators. History had come to life....

[Drygoods]

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Some of the descendants are certainly still around. My father-in-law went to school at Episcopal High School in Alexandria and was close friends with the grandson's of four CW general's, and still is today. Granted these old timers are in thier mid-late 80s. What I found most amusing when talking with my father in-law are his stories of when the CW veterans visited the school in the 1930s and told war stories, plus visiting his friend's houses and seeing 'the General's' furnishings still in the house, as heirloom treasures. For some, the history of the CW era isn't all that far away.:wink_smil

[Shockoe Hill Cats]

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I am well acquainted with my neighbors, Stephen Ashby and Julia Kindred, and even moreso their son, Will. Steve's great-grandfather's, first cousin was Confederate cavalry General Turner Ashby. He informs me that Turner Ashby had no immediate descendants (that he legitimately knows of). Steve grew up in Richmond, but has been residing in Charlottesville for most of his life.

With Will, I first encountered the "reenacting" experience. He and I were involved in various battles around the tree fort. I usually went Confederate and would entertain Mr. Ashby with my best beau-of-a Southern dialect, to which he would recant, "Jason, that godd*@$ed war's been over for nearly 140 years!"
After they tore down the fort and sold the land, I asked why the property had not been mentioned as a "historical landmark." :D


On a more recent note, I just talked with Michael Merriman who's the great-great grandnephew of our infamous Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. His great-great grandfather was Lawton Jackson, from Jackson's Mill area. Mikey, 19, lived in Charlottesville, Va. for a while, but is currently residing in Denver, Co. That kid has one wicked sense of humor...

[83pvi]

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I know of Dan Sickles' ggg?grandaughter. Same last name. I also know someone related to Joe E. Johnston. By marriage I am related to Stephen Douglas.
Peter Sivak

[Becky Morgan]

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I went to school with Albert Sickles, General Sickles' great-great-nephew.

[McKim]

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A friend knows Townsend Hardee but I have never imposed.

[D Harrelson]

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Back in the mid-70's, I owned a bar in Farmville VA and had a part-time bartender who was a full-time student at Hampden-Sydney College-- Richard Stoddard Ewell from Charlottesville VA. Some relation to the General and it was lineal. Eerie part was how much they looked alike based on photos-- bug eyes, balding hairline, etc.

D.L. Harrelson

[Watchdog]

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I know a great-grandson of U. S. Grant, and have spoken with descendents of Generals Garfield (great-grandson) and Burnside.

[47thNYReb]

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Chris,

The Breckenridge fellow stumbled into my bivouac at the 1997 NSA event at Spring Hill and told the tales which you mentioned in your post.

My thinking was that the Breckenridge family appears to have had its glory days several generations back.

Kind regards,

I believe that this is the same fellow that wandered into our camp back in 2005. He appeared out of the mist at about 1am and stayed for several hours telling how much better Kentucky was than the rest of the world and all about General Breckenridge. I read on the web a while back that he had died this past summer. Nice enough fellow, but really kind of odd.

[Gary of CA]

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Years ago I was told there were some descendents of Marsh Bob right here in the Land o' Rice a Roni & Cable Cars. I can't confirm the accuracy of that assertion. This past Saturday (1/26), I went to Fort Point for Civil War Days. I addressed a Federal officer who was with the SUV as "General Hood" because his beard made him resemble the Gallant Hood. He threw his head back, laughed and admitted that he does protray Hood at some events like Duncan Mills in Marin County. When asked with whom he was related to, he responded with General George Thomas.

BTW, I met a Goodyear once and asked if she was related to the Goodyear Tire Company. Nope. No free blimp ride for me.